Sabine Bernabè

Sabine Bernabè, is the Director-General of the Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) of the World Bank Group (WBG). Sabine’s vision for IEG is to deliver on this challenge by producing useful, high quality, independent evaluations that enhance the WBG accountability and provide evidence-based lessons for better results and decision-making. Sabine has over 20 years’ international development experience in evaluation, policy, and research across several International Organizations and academia. Before leading IEG, Sabine led the Evaluation Function of the European Investment Bank (EIB) Group. She fostered knowledge management and strengthened the function’s analytical skills, advanced evaluation-based dialogue and exchanges with Management and the Board on issues of critical importance to the EIB Group and promoted collaborative relationships with heads of evaluation of other international organizations. Previously Sabine worked as an economist for the World Bank, the EIB, UNDP and the University of K.U. Leuven. She also worked, taught and published on a range of topics including poverty, inequality, labor markets, growth and financial sector development.  Sabine earned a Ph. D from the London School of Economics and a Masters from SDA Bocconi